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iPad Art Room Books

Download these free books to start your journey with iPads and creative workflows. Written for teachers, you’ll find flexible lesson plans, apps lists and lots of ideas to support teaching and learning in your classroom.

Apps and Ideas

List of apps and ideas

Felt BoardUse images and icons in layers to create pictures
Produce images within comics
Create story board elements or plan out movie scenes
Use constructs as the backdrop for animation (particularly suited to landscapes)
Storytelling/narrative artwork
BEST TIP: If students are all asked to choose the same background so the horizon lines are in the same position, the works can be printed and joined to create one long mural/artwork. This is works well for a collaborative work, an extended landscape or a continuous or changing environment.

FoldifyProduce nets and printed 3D constructions
See more ideas and workflows for Foldify here.
Connect other learning at the start of Foldify tasks or after – for example, create patterns using materials, furs using photographs, or selfies for personified models. The se can be used in stop motion activities, displays, etc. Collaborate to build components of cityscapes, zoos, environments, landscapes, transport systems, etc.

Patchwork (Elmer’s Patchwork) Create photographically decorated elephants using this interactive, digital colouring book
Focus on photography control/skills
link to hands-on tasks that produce the material to fill the spaces in the designs. For example, create patterns on tables using pipe cleaners, produce tonal paintings or go on an ‘art walk’ to look for texture, etc.
The elephants can be printed out and displayed, used as a design for a subsequent painting, manipulated photographically, etc.

Puppet WorkshopCreate ‘puppets’ with digital materials such as coiled plasticine, fabric and buttons

NOTE: The Pic Collage app is the ‘rough and ready’ app to bring text,imagery, etc together. Moldav is a more powerful app for image combinations that need to remain high quality. Remember these JPEG files may be big, so you can change the size before exporting to the camera roll.

See more of the creative potential of these collage apps for storytelling, planning, teacher resources etc.

Skitch Great for annotating images. you can add tags ,notes, point to sections, etc. Also excellent tool for pixelating student faces if that is required.Tadaa Excellent muti-purpose photography tool, good blur feature to protect student identity if required.

Symmetry, patterns, repetition, reflection, etc…

AmaziographiOrnament
Explore tessellations and reflecting wallpaper patterns using these apps. Great for developing an understanding of concepts and scratching out ideas before students spend time designing their patterns on paper, etc.

Snowflake! Explore symmetry as you cut digital snowflakes and unfold them to reveal printable designs. This is a great app in a creative workflow for Primary students – print designs for display, use them as templates for stencilled images that develop an understanding of positive and negative shape, etc.